Example sentences of "[adj] member [prep] [art] family " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women were normally assumed to be dependent members of a family unit : daughters living at home before marriage ; wives of employed husbands ; or if unmarried , sheltered by parents or siblings . |
| 2 | These should protect citizens from the homelessness , poverty , bad housing , unemployment , religious racial and sexual discrimination , physical and mental disability and ill health and the need to care for dependent members of the family which prevent citizens from participating in society . |
| 3 | The flames shot straight up into the sky , dispersing whatever fog was in the immediate area , and we sat around on bales , as we have always done , while some members of the family let off fireworks in the background . |
| 4 | In some members of the family , it goes even further and coils around the right eye-socket . |
| 5 | Some families choose particular village locations because multiple-car ownership eases their problems of accessibility ; others make the choice or are constrained to a particular area for economic reasons even though the ownership of just one car may cause difficulties for some members of the family ; yet other households may be constrained even to particular houses in particular locations . |
| 6 | I 'm not a proper member of the family ! ’ |
| 7 | As the cast list expanded through royal marriages and the creation of a brood of ‘ nearly royals ’ — frivolous young men and women staking a claim to attention in the gossip columns simply because another member of the family had a genuine connection with the Windsors — the roles could be constantly juggled to satisfy an appetite which had been primed by the Palace itself . |
| 8 | A marquis , Ridolfi was related to the Medici family through the marriage of one of his ancestors to a daughter of Lorenzo the Magnificent ; another member of the family , Cosimo Rodolfi , was a leading figure of the 19th century Risorgimento and the founder of Florence 's first savings bank . |
| 9 | Anything deeper in its dark interior had to remain there until another member of the family could get it out for her . |
| 10 | You can then practise by sending another member of the family round to the front door to act as a visitor , making the dog sit again . |
| 11 | She said another member of the family would have been able to help after the theft but it would have caused more inconvenience . |
| 12 | Eleanor 's father , Duke William X , had married one of their daughters ; another member of the family had been William IX 's most famous mistress . |
| 13 | She may be able to work different hours for a period of time while her burden is shared by another member of the family or a neighbour . |
| 14 | One in five appellants had made some attempt to obtain advice prior to the hearing , but only one in eight appellants is represented by an expert , as distinct from being accompanied by another member of the family or a friend without expert knowledge . |
| 15 | Some women may wish to pay the Poll Tax bill of another member of the family . |
| 16 | He began to tell her about Letty and then about the astonishing story that there might be another member of the family tucked away in Scotland . |
| 17 | She had it from another member of the family . |
| 18 | We did n't think there was enough room for another member of the family , so I trained as a chartered accountant . ’ |
| 19 | They might have been using the whole of the attendance allowance erm to pay for carers , outside of the care that we provided , erm or a member of the family might have given up work to look after another member of the family . |
| 20 | He considers a trust in favour of the family fideicommissum familiae relictum ) : a settlor has established it ; a member of the family is benefiting from it , but he is at the same time bound by the trust to hand on the property on death to a further member of the family . |
| 21 | By this time the youngest member of the family , an eight-year-old boy , had got out of bed and was clinging to the bannisters at the bottom of the stairs . |
| 22 | With such diverse facilities and wide ranging activities , we have found that many young mothers attending the Sportcentre require a private room to feed or change the youngest member of the family — to satisfy that need we are pleased to provide a fully equipped Baby Care room to give mum the privacy and comfort she and junior deserve . |
| 23 | The eldest was to receive half of them , his younger brother a third and the youngest member of the family a ninth . |
| 24 | Family killed : Six members of a family supporting the ANC have been killed in an attack on their home in Sebokeng township , near Johannesburg . |
| 25 | J stands for Johnstone , the family name behind a company which keeps six members of the family gainfully employed . |
| 26 | It was clear that the supporters of the scheme were concerned with the status of mothers and children just as the early members of the Family Endowment Society had been . |
| 27 | It may prove helpful to view the figure ( ignoring arrows ) as a family tree in which the nodes correspond to male members of a family and node 1 is a patriarch . |
| 28 | As a result , many of the peasantry maintain a subsistence plot but , since this is usually insufficient to support a family , the male members of the family have to seek seasonal labouring work , leaving the women to maintain the family farm . |
| 29 | Little is known of his early life , except that he was the son of a judge 's clerk , of upper-middle class background , and that the male members of the family were engaged in either the legal or ecclesiastical professions . |
| 30 | The child is also subject to the authority of the joint family system , which puts the making of decisions in the hands of one or two senior male members of the family . |